Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hugo Flores analyses a rock recently extracted from the mine in San Joaquin, Mexico (Associated Press/Fernando Llano) A drill ...

For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs ...

SAN JOAQUIN, Mexico (AP) — A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes ...

WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Moosic, and U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01) and Brian Mast (R-FL-21) this wee introduced the “Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act.” This ...

Gold-mining equipment operates in water near a river bank with trees in the background. Illegal gold mining along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon River basin of Peru.

One of the world’s richest biodiversity hot spots is Peru’s Madre de Dios, a region of the Amazon nestled at the base of the Andes mountains. When biogeochemist Jacqueline Gerson first traveled there ...

A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes of minerals illuminated by ...